Rumble...
Fang Yuan unleashed his killer moves, forcing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Giant Sun Immortal Venerable into retreat.
"What on earth is going on?"
"When did Immortal Friend Fang Yuan become a Venerable?!"
Lu Weiyin and Shen Shang watched Fang Yuan battling the two Venerables, their expressions complicated as they urgently questioned Qi Hai Ancestor.
Qi Hai Ancestor was just as stunned, a bitter smile on his face. "I have no idea either."
Lu Weiyin and Shen Shang were speechless. How deep had Fang Yuan hidden his strength? He had even deceived his own clone!
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable likewise maintained their silence.
Because both of them had discovered that Fang Yuan's strength was, in fact, slightly superior to each of their own!
He had just been at the Eighth Transformation Sub-Venerable stage — how had he become a Ninth Transformation Venerable in the blink of an eye?!
The two Venerables were equally perplexed.
"Strange, strange — there's something very strange going on here!" Giant Sun Immortal Venerable attacked fiercely, golden light surging across the heavens, his momentum terrifying.
Fang Yuan gave a soft shout, unleashing his methods, and forcibly suppressed the towering golden radiance.
"The Dao Marks on him vastly exceed Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's!" When they witnessed this scene, Lu Weiyin and the others felt their hearts lurch.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable secretly drew a sharp breath, narrowed his focus, and activated his techniques.
In the next moment, his vision shifted dramatically as he observed the fortune above Fang Yuan's head.
At first, not a trace of Fang Yuan's fortune had leaked. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable could only see a Pot Boiling Fortune.
But then, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable intensified his efforts. After golden blood flowed from both his eyes, he finally pierced through the Pot Boiling Fortune's defenses and laid eyes upon Fang Yuan's true fortune.
He saw a pillar of silver light, standing between heaven and earth — majestic yet perfectly condensed.
At the base of the silver light pillar sat an earthen-brown tomb, now almost entirely dissipated, with only scattered remnants remaining.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's heart stirred, and he sighed inwardly: "This is Lètǔ's fortune. On one hand, it helps stabilize the foundation of the silver light pillar; on the other, it can be seen as something that excavated and replaced Fang Yuan's original foundation. It was originally the greatest threat lurking within Fang Yuan's fortune. Fang Yuan killed Lètǔ, and the threat vanished completely! The remaining traces of the earthen tomb are what Fang Yuan has yet to fully digest from Lètǔ's foundation."
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable raised his gaze once more, looking to the apex of the silver light pillar.
Back during their earlier alliance, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had already glimpsed Fang Yuan's fortune. Compared to before, the top of Fang Yuan's silver light pillar was no longer shrouded by three layers of cloud.
Instead, it pierced straight through — truly standing between heaven and earth!
The three Venerables' auspicious clouds at most hovered around the upper portion of the silver light pillar.
This meant that none of the three Venerables could overshadow him any longer.
Among the three Venerables' clouds, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's had already shifted to a crimson-gold hue, positioned at the very top. The two clouds of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and Spectral Soul Demon Venerable sat below, and they appeared to be tearing apart from each other.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's heart stirred again: "Is this a sign that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable is rapidly breaking free from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's control?"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was not surprised.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable was a being on the same level as Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. The fact that Star Constellation could control Spectral Soul at all was already a feat that stunned the ages. But to fully control a Venerable — that was likely impractical.
"If Spectral Soul Demon Venerable breaks free from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's control during this battle, what will the situation look like?"
"Regardless — at least from a fortune standpoint, Fang Yuan truly has become a Venerable!"
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable trusted his own fortune-manipulation techniques, and now he was finally, absolutely certain.
For a moment, the gaze with which Giant Sun Immortal Venerable looked at Fang Yuan carried a trace of anger.
How had Fang Yuan become a Venerable in the blink of an eye?
Judging from his expression and tone, he treated the Ninth Transformation as though it were utterly mundane. What did he take a Venerable to be?
If reaching the Ninth Transformation and becoming a Venerable could be accomplished this casually, then what did that make Giant Sun Immortal Venerable?
What did that make all the Venerables throughout history?
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was also calculating rapidly: "Fang Yuan truly has reached the Ninth Transformation cultivation level. I underestimated his cunning and treachery! When exactly did he become a Venerable? Was he at this level from the very beginning? All signs point to no. He must have quietly become a Venerable at some point during the battle for the Crazed Demon Cave. But... his realm was clearly insufficient."